Category: Eye Candy for Today
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Eye Candy for Today: Fragonard wash drawing
View of an Italianate park with figures, a villa behind, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, brown wash over brown ink lines and black chalk, roughly 13 x 11″ (33 x 47cm); link is to Sotheby’s past auction, large image here. In this beautifully sensitive drawing, 18th century French painter, draftsman ad printmaker Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who specialized in such…
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Eye Candy for Today: Emelie Preyer Still Life with Grapes and Peaches
Still Life with Grapes and Peaches, Emelie Preyer, oil on canvas, roughly 7 x 9″ (17 x 23 cm) A wonderfully tactile still life from German painter Emelie Preyer, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I love the she has emphasized imperfections, with the inclusion of the fly (or perhaps…
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Veronese Adorations
Paolo Veronese: Adoration of the Magi and Adoration of the Shepherds. Two beautiful paintings by 16th century master Paolo Veronese, though the kings seem to get a lot more attention here than the shepherds (much as in life, I suppose). Veronese did several paintings of the adorations; these are both from the Basilica dei Santi…
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J. C. Leyendecker’s wide awake Santa
Well, here’s something I didn’t know: coffee perks you up! — at least, according to this ad from the December 16, 1940 issue of Life magazine, delightfully illustrated by J. C. Leyendecker. Apparently, Santa is WIDE AWAKE in this ad from the Pan American coffee producers. This is an advertisement for coffee in general, rather…
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Eye Candy for Today: Stepan Kolesnikoff Winter Landscape
Winter Landscape, Stepan Kolesnikoff, gouache on card, roughly 20 x 26 in (50 x 65 cm). Link is to a 2019 auction result on Christie’s (large image here). I assume the painting is currently in a private collection. Another beautiful snow scene in gouache by the Ukrainian/Rusian painter Stepan Kolesnikoff, who was active in the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Vermeer’s Geographer
The Geographer, Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, roughly 18×20 inches(45 x 51 cm). Link is to zoomable version on the Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Staedel Museum, Germany. Twenty six years ago this month, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC debuted a most remarkable exhibition of…